Unfinished Thoughts

The Personal Website of William Flake

Posts Tagged 'Sports'

Thrill of Victory, Agony of Defeat, and Something In-Between

These past few weeks have been interesting. I would have posted about them more, but I was too busy doing things to tell people about them.

Football, Part 1: Clemson vs. USC

The first game that I got to go to last weekend was the famed Clemson vs. USC game. Ok, so I only got in because it was a soccer match, but still. It's technically a Clemson vs. USC 'football' game.

Despite the fact that I haven't been to a soccer game since, well, the last time I played in elementary school, I had a good time. By every account except the final score, Clemson was sort-of dominating. We had better control of the ball, we shot at the goal more often, and still managed to lose 0-1. Soccer's a weird sport.

On a related note, the soccer stadium, despite being rather miniscule, is almost exactly the same size as Summerville's football stadium. It adds a weird sense of scale to life here at college.

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